Jul 08 How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Email Hacking By Cat Wise Dmitri Alperovitch of CrowdStrike demonstrates how an email message can allow hackers to access your computer. Continue reading
Jul 05 Nobel Laureates Doodle Their Discoveries You can view Nobel Award-winning scientists sketching their research in the video above. What do you get when you ask 56 Nobel Laureate scientists to cartoon their greatest discoveries? Photographer Volker Steger fearlessly tackled the challenge during… Continue reading
Jul 03 Russian Rocket Explosion Releases Toxic Fuel Cloud A Proton-M rocket, carrying a Nimiq 6 communication satellite is raised to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome, on May 14, 2012. Photo by STR/AFP/GettyImages. After a Russian Proton-M rocket lost control, tipped over and… Continue reading
Jul 03 Liver Buds Show Promise, but Growing New Organs Is Still a Long Way Off EmbedVideo(6858, 482, 304); Watch this time lapse video showing how three types of stem cells organized into a three dimensional liver bud over 72 hours. Video by Takanori Takebe When stem cell biologist Takanori Takebe at Japan's Yokohama City… Continue reading
Jul 02 Russian Rocket Crashes and Explodes, Spilling Fuel EmbedVideo(6689, 482, 304); A Russian Proton-M rocket crashes seconds after launch on Tuesday. Video by Rossiya 24. A Russian rocket carrying three navigation satellites careened off its flight path, burst into flames and crashed just seconds after liftoff… Continue reading
Jul 01 Science Rap Contest: And the Winners Are... Ernesto Lara's video, "Elevation and Boiling Point," has won first prize in the adult category for the NewsHour's science rap contest. Ernesto Lara, a 33-year-old math and Spanish teacher in Silver Spring, Md., has won the adult category… Continue reading
Jun 28 Watch DNA Testing Reunites Families Separated by War Thousands of children were kidnapped during a civil war in El Salvador in the 1980s, but new DNA procedures are helping reunite parents with their now grown children. Continue watching
Jun 28 NIH to Retire Most Research Chimps Chimpanzees snack on fruit and vegetables at Louisiana's Chimp Haven retirement facility. Image by Cameron Hickey. In another move toward ending invasive research on our chimpanzee cousins, the National Institute of Health announced on Wednesday that it… Continue reading
Jun 26 How Hurling Spears 2 Million Years Ago May Have Given Us a 96-mph Fastball MVP pitcher Justin Verlander is known for consistently throwing heat for the Detroit Tigers. In a study published this week, scientists learn how professional pitchers can throw with such high velocity and what this skill meant in our evolution. Continue reading
Jun 25 Watch Reactions to the White House Proposal to Curb Climate Change President Barack Obama announced a sweeping proposal to curb climate change and cut emissions. Gwen Ifill gets two reactions on the plan and its potential impact from Frances Beinecke, president of the Natural Resources Defense Council and attorney Scott Segal,… Continue watching